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A better deal.(books, arts & manners)(In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State)(Book review)
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, by Charles Murray (AEI, 222 pp., $20)
IN the late 1980s, Charles Murray engaged in a thought experiment. He had already, in Losing Ground, proposed doing away with welfare on the theory that it would improve the lot of poor people. Now he wondered whether people would be better off if the entire welfare state were done away with. Why not get rid of all the transfer programs and just give everyone a check?
But the numbers didn't add up--the check would be too small for the trade to work. Murray abandoned the thought experiment and turned to other projects: most famously, The Bell Curve, a book on ...
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